51 pages 1 hour read

Ashley Poston

The Seven Year Slip

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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Essay Topics

1.

What do you think is the significance of the time slip in Apartment B4 always going back seven years? How does the text account for this specific time frame?

2.

Toward the end of the novel, Clementine separates the two versions she sees of herself by naming them “Clementine” and “Lemon.” What does this say about how Clementine views herself? What is Iwan’s impact on shaping “Lemon”?

3.

In her “Readers Guide” to the book, Poston notes how she wrote three different versions of the text throughout different periods of her life, and she views the book as a time capsule. How does this information about the text influence your understanding of its major themes?